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Frontier models write backtests that run and are wrong. We graded them on hidden data.

I've been building quant-engineering eval tasks for agents. The agent gets raw synthetic market data and a strategy spec, writes a backtest, and a deterministic grader re-runs that code on hidden data across 5 seeds. The data includes the usual real-world problems (ticker renames, splits, dividends…

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  1. 2026-10-22 16:13 · r/learnmachinelearning
    Frontier models write backtests that run and are wrong. We graded them on hidden data.

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